According to "The Guardian":-

"Huge demand for archive footage of the late Lady Thatcher has exposed problems with plans to make the BBC's New Broadcasting House "tapeless'.

BBC News staff are having to ferry tapes across London in taxis or pay thousands of pounds to get outside companies to get videos converted to digital.

According to BBC sources, footage for Tuesday's TV news bulletins had to be physically brought from the corporation's archive storage in Perivale in north-west London to New Broadcasting House by a member of staff on the tube.


.....According to one BBC insider, after the death of Thatcher on Monday at one point there were four producers in the bulletins area queuing up to use the one tape machine that had been provided and in Newsnight's area "there are tapes all over the place"."  

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